Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, way drive a bad passion a stronger — Peter Kreeft, Prayer Beginners

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Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.

Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners

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